1. Beam up the goulash -- 2. Machines and metaphors -- 3. Information is physical -- 4. The quantum and the computer -- 5. The computational cell -- 6. The computational brain -- 7. Consciousness and complexity -- 8. IGUSes -- 9. Quantum reality -- 10. From black holes to supermatter -- 11. The magical mystery theory -- 12 The bit and the pendulum.